There was a lot of noise in the dormitory, but Lu Tong didn’t wake up.
Qin Shiwu was not enough to beat his father, and he was pinned to the ground by Qin Chu in just a few moves.
He had the potential to be a hero — — As the saying goes, the most important thing for a hero was the ability to bow and submit or stand tall. Qin Shiwu could not only stand tall, but he could also bow and submit.
As for how to yield, that depends on individual interests and preferences.
His body was now bent, like a shrimp, with a good attitude, and he surrendered spinelessly, “I’m sorry, Dad. I think I’m deeply aware of my mistake.”
Qin Chu asked with a chuckle, “Where did you go wrong?”
Qin Shiwu thought for a moment and said seriously, “My fault is that I was not right at all!”
Qin Chu finally let Qin Shiwu go.
Qin Shiwu stood up obediently. He looked at Lu Tong and then at Qin Chu.
Qin Chu pointed to the door, “How are you planning to get lost?”
Qin Shiwu reported, “Right away.”
He hesitated for a moment and asked, “Do you like Lu Tong?”
Qin Chu spat out a word indifferently, “No.”
No?
Qin Shiwu was stunned.
What did ”no” mean?
He was a little confused about his father’s thoughts.
If he didn’t like Lu Tong, what happened just then?
Don’t tell him that Qin Chu tried his best to pin Lu Tong on the bed just to take a look at the glow watch.
After thinking about it for a while, Qin Shiwu became angry again.
So, Qin Chu didn’t like Lu Tong. Then why did he do these misleading things?
D***!
Don’t say that he wanted to play the trick of having s** with him and then abandoning him!
Such a s**um**g!
Qin Chu watched Qin Shiwu’s expression change several times visibly to the naked eye.
This little b*** had always been very good at imagining things. He wondered what he was thinking.
Qin Chu said, “My business with him is none of your business.”
Qin Shiwu thought to himself in a daze: None of my business? Do you think I want to care about it? This is about a major life event that is the birth of my older brother! If I don’t care about it, then who will? Rely on you, a scumbag[footnote]esp. in romantic relationships[/footnote], to care about it?!”
…… I am really a social orphan.
Qin Chu gave him a push, and when he reached the door, he picked up the Wangzai milk’s boy on the ground.
Luckily, when Qin Shiwu had come running to their dorm earlier with a skip and hop, he hadn’t had the chance to drink it yet. Otherwise, it would definitely have been a mess now.
He stuffed the canned milk into Qin Shiwu’s hand and said, “Hurry back to sleep.”
Qin Shiwu was stuck at the door, “Wait, wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait!”
He hesitated in his heart and wanted to ask Qin Chu if he had already discovered that Lu Tong was an omega.
But when these words came to his lips, he couldn’t ask anyway.
If Qin Chu hadn’t noticed but he said it himself, wouldn’t it be him confessing without being pressed?
Then tomorrow, when Lu Tong wakes up…… He will be the one who will be dead without a complete body, okay!
But if Qin Chu hadn’t found out, then he……
Then he was in an AA relationship?
Qin Shiwu stood at the door, stunned again.
Qin Chu didn’t bother to wait for him. After urging him to go to bed early, he dragged him out of the dormitory door.
After dealing with Qin Shiwu, Qin Chu was no longer in the mood.
He looked back at Lu Tong on his bed, who was sleeping soundly with his Agumon in his arms, and it looked like no one could wake him up. Qin Chu sighed and then realised belatedly and felt that he had been possessed by a demon just then. Sitting in a chair, he suddenly laughed twice.
Early the next morning, Lu Tong appeared in the classroom.
He Nian looked up at him and wanted to say hello. But when he saw Lu Tong’s face did not look good, he swallowed the greeting back into his stomach.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Lu Tong sat in a chair.
Although he looked bad, he didn’t look like he hadn’t slept well.
He Nian asked cautiously, “Because of the midterm exam?”
The results of the midterm exam came out today. He Nian vaguely remembered that Lu Tong missed an afternoon exam for some reason. Although Old Zhou later pulled some strings for him to retake the exam, they didn’t know what the final exam result would be.
Seeing that this academic god who always ranked first in the grade was uneasy on the day of the announcement of the results, could it be that he didn’t do well in the exam for the first time?
He Nian, “It seems that the results of each subject have come out. Do you want to go to the office to ask?”
If Lu Tong went, the teachers would definitely have no objection and would directly pull out the official grade report for him.
But it was just that he had never asked about the results, so He Nian was not sure what Lu Tong was thinking for a while.
“It’s not because of grades.”
“It’s not because of grades?” He Nian lowered his voice and asked, “Is it because of Qin Chu?”
Lu Tong’s eyebrows twitched, and the roots of his ears turned pink irrepressibly.
“Qin Chu? What does it have to do with him?”
He said this with a hint of a clumsy denial resulting in self-exposure[footnote]The literal translation for this part is: “There are no 300 taels of silver buried here.”
The origin of this phrase is a very silly short story.
One day, a person named Zhang San found a bag containing 300 taels of silver. He was overjoyed, but he worried about consequences if he immediately spent it. So he buried the silver under a wall and put a sign over it to insist there was no silver buried here.
His neighbour, Wang Er, saw this sign and was curious. When nobody was looking, he dug the earth and found the silver. He decided to keep it to himself, but he was also worried about being found out. He put a sign next to it: “The neighbour Wang Er did not steal it.”
The idiom and funny story basically mean a person is trying to cover up something but is doing it in such a poor way that it makes him even more suspicious. Just like what these two geniuses did when they found the silver and tried to keep it for themselves.
(Source: Quora [George Hu])[/footnote].
Moreover, the reason why Lu Tong got up early and was in a bad mood was really because of Qin Chu.
He got too drunk last night, and he had a complete blackout this morning. He could only remember some sporadic things.
This was not the main thing. The main thing was that he got up from Qin Chu’s bed.
If it’s as expected, he must have been brought back by Qin Chu last night — — How could Lu Tong feel better after owing him such a big favour?
It was fine if it was anyone else. He and Qin Chu still had a confusing bond of a marking. They really shouldn’t have caused more trouble. Now, it seemed, the trouble was only growing.
But — — How did He Nian know?
Could it be that he was drunk last night and the whole school knew about it today?
Or was it that Qin Chu, that blabbermouth, had made it widely known everywhere?
It was unlikely.
In the next second, He Nian automatically answered, “I have seen the discussion in the campus forum. Brother, my deepest condolences. But I think Chen Anqi has made up her mind to be with Qin Chu. Qin Chu went to celebrate her birthday yesterday, and the prolonged century-long war between two females for one male is finally coming to an end.”
After Lu Tong heard this, he felt a weight off his mind.
It turned out to be a trivial matter between Chen Anqi and Qin Chu.
He Nian, “Don’t be too sad. There are plenty more fish in the sea.”
Lu Tong asked, “When did it happen?”
He Nian, “Just yesterday in Kaiyuan. Someone saw Qin Chu eating with Chen Anqi, and then it seemed that he had a fight with people from No. 4 Vocational School. I don’t know the specific situation, but the forum was flooded with more than 20 posts, and yesterday’s events are still floating on the homepage. Do you want to go and take a look?”
Lu Tong had never been to the campus forum before, and his heart didn’t grieve over what his eye didn’t see. He waved his hand and said, “Don’t want to check.”
Since it had nothing to do with him, what would he go to see?
To appreciate the eternal love between Qin Chu and Chen Anqi?
Hehe.
“That’s right.” But when He Nian brought up the fight with the No. 4 Vocational School, it reminded him of a strange thing. Lu Tong said, “There is one more thing I wanted to ask you.”
He Nian asked, feeling strange, “You want to ask me?”
This was really the sun rising from the west.
He Nian had always taken the initiative to talk to Lu Tong and ask Lu Tong questions. There was no time when it was the other party’s turn to stoop to ask him.
He Nian immediately sat up straight and said solemnly, “You ask. I know all the answers.”
What Lu Tong wanted to ask was a strange thing.
“Can the time on a mobile phone be adjusted by yourself?”
He Nian asked rhetorically, “What?”
Lu Tong pointed to his mobile phone hidden in the cubby of the table and asked calmly, “Can the time on your mobile phone, the time on its screen, be adjusted by yourself?”
He Nian fished for and took out his cell phone, and a question mark appeared on his forehead, “About what you asked me, I really have no idea. I haven’t tried adjusting it.” He paused and looked at Lu Tong, “Why are you suddenly interested in this? I remember you don’t like playing with your cell phone very much.”
Lu Tong looked at his cell phone thoughtfully and said, “It’s okay.”
He Nian still felt that he was being abnormal, so he said, “Wait a minute; I’ll take out my cell phone and try it. But all cell phones should have the unified Beijing Time. Who has time to adjust it for no reason?”
Lu Tong stared at him for a while and asked without giving up, “Can you adjust it?”
He Nian said, “It seems possible.”
He showed Lu Tong his phone, and the screen time could indeed be adjusted.
Lu Tong still had doubts and asked, “Is that so?”
He Nian, “Do you want to adjust your phone’s time? I’ll adjust it for you. Is your phone’s time not right?”
Lu Tong shook his head, “No.” He took out a book, opened it, and then asked, “Can you adjust the year?”
He Nian was still fiddling with his mobile phone, “It should be possible. You want to adjust it by how many years?”
Lu Tong pursed his lips and said, “…… Sixteen years.”
He Nian looked at him with black lines all over his head, “??? Forward or backward?” He scrolled through the phone’s date settings. Sixteen years back was doable, but sixteen years into the future — — What kind of phone manufacturer would even program that far ahead?
“Can’t you?” Lu Tong asked.
“No……” He Nian said, “In any case, my mobile phone can’t. Maybe a knockoff cell phone can. You also know how awesome our country’s knockoff cell phones are. They can prop up tables and block bullets, and they are proficient in wielding all the 18 kinds of weapons.”
Lu Tong recalled Qin Shiwu’s phone, and he had never seen a genuine phone of any brand that looked like that.
Could it be a knockoff?
But it didn’t feel like one when he held it in his hand.
After the matter was dropped, he sighed and felt that Qin Shiwu was full of an aura of strangeness. But he couldn’t tell what was strange about him for a while.
Besides, he was not very clear-headed yesterday, and it was possible that he saw it wrong.
After the October sports meeting was over, the only two activities left in the first half of the semester were social practice and the autumn outing.
This autumn outing was only for the first and second years of high school, and the third-year students had already been deprived of this right.
However, before the students could look forward to these two activities, they still had to face the crisis of the announcement of the results of the midterm exam.
When Qin Shiwu sat in the class and got the paper, he looked at his score with a serious expression: 220.
Lin Xiaomian encouraged, “Don’t be discouraged!”
Qu Muyao laughed out loud unceremoniously from the side, “Two hundred and twenty points? How did you take the exam?”
Qin Shiwu snorted in an ultra-cool manner but was still a little embarrassed and covered the test paper.
In fact, getting two hundred and twenty points in the exam was not a shame.
When Qin Shiwu travelled through time, he was just in the first year of high school. A few days before the start of school after getting promoted from junior high to high school, he got into a fight with some people at school. After the big fight got out of hand, Qin Chu and Lu Tong came to school. He argued with his father and ran into the wishing well in anger, and then he travelled back sixteen years ago.
To be honest, he hadn’t studied any textbooks in his first year of high school. It was pretty good to get more than 200 points, okay!
There was a gap between what was learnt in junior high and what was learnt in high school.
Of the more than 200 points that Qin Shiwu scored, more than 100 points were in English. He had been studying in a bilingual school since he was young, and he had lived with his maternal grandfather in a British wine chateau for several years, so his spoken English was still pretty good.
The topic of the Chinese composition was to praise fatherly love. But because he was in a cold war with Qin Chu during the midterm exam, Qin Shiwu disdained to praise fatherly love, resulting in him not writing the composition. He only picked a few multiple-choice questions to do, and thus, the score on the paper was not high.
As for physics, chemistry, politics, history, and geography, his two eyes suddenly blacked out even more.
Such profound topics were too difficult for a fourteen-year-old child to do.
Moreover, the Provincial No. 1 High School was still a key high school, and all three years of the high school curriculum had to be completed before the end of the second year. The teachers taught very fast as if they were in a hurry to reincarnate. If you don’t pay attention, you will miss a lot of knowledge points.
More often, students needed to strengthen their knowledge in private by themselves.
Qin Shiwu spent all his private time studying the progress of his parents’ relationship. So, where would he have time to worry about his grades?
Moreover, he could copy Lin Xiaomian’s homework every time. Studying up until now, he didn’t even know which lesson the teacher was on.
Thinking of this, Qin Shiwu sighed.
Lin Xiaomian said, “Actually, you don’t have to be too sad. You are not the last one.”
Qin Shiwu asked, “Who is the last one?”
Lin Xiaomian paused, as if she were afraid to say it.
She didn’t dare to say it, but Qu Muyao dared to say it, “Qin Chu. Look, he only scored more than 100 points in the exam, setting a record for the lowest one in history. I guess the people from the political and educational department will come to find him. He pulled down the average score of the entire grade with just his ability.”
Qin Shiwu was stunned and then thought speechlessly: Little aunt, you did not have this attitude of frigid irony and scorching satire[footnote]to mock and ridicule[/footnote] sixteen years later……
He still remembered that it was because of Qu Muyao’s misleading sixteen years later that his impression of his father remained as an academic tyrant. Was this a fucking academic tyrant? He was a “tyrant”, but that’s the “tyrant” of a school tyrant. Where is “academic”?
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